
Environment		Introduction

Overview

SIR2002 is a comprehensive database management and application development system. The normal way to use SIR2002 is through a set of graphical user menus and dialogs. Simply enter the operating system command sir or click on the appropriate icon and the menus are displayed. This gives access to any SIR2002 databases and enables you to create and develop applications. In addition to this, there are a number of features for more complex situations.

The menus allow you to perform all standard tasks but you may wish to provide scripts for other users to use and want to know about commands.

When you execute sir, the command line has various optional keywords and parameters known as execution parameters which specify a starting database and various other settings.

The system can also run login scripts which further customise the environment you are using.

If you have a number of regular, routine tasks that are not done by people interactively, but are simply run, then you may wish to use sirbatch facilities.

If you have a number of users who need to update the same database simultaneously, then you may wish to use sirmaster process which controls and co-ordinates updates.

If you want to provide ODBC access to your SIR2002 data for other applications, then you need to install the SIR ODBC driver and use the SirSQL Server.